Memory Practices in Public Space
Maria Engelskirchen is an art historian and researcher at the Center for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change (KFG 33), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), at Universitt Mnster. From 2017-2020, she was a doctoral student in the research project The Skulptur Projekte Archives in Mnster. A Research Institution for Scholarship and the Public, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Her research interests include art and the public sphere, digitization and reproduction of art with a focus on sculpture, as well as collection studies. Ursula Frohne (Prof. Dr. phil.) is a professor of art history at Universitt Mnster and co-chair of the DFG-funded Center for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change. She also taught at Universitt Kln, Brown University, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Knste Karlsruhe, as well as Universitt Bremen, and she worked as chief curator at ZKM | Zentrum fr Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe. In 2014, she was awarded the Leo-Spitzer-Prize for Arts, Humanities, and Human Sciences by the University of Cologne for excellence in research. Her research focuses on contemporary art and technological media, the political dimensions and socio-economic conditions of art and visual culture, and the entanglements of art, public sphere(s), and cultures of debate. Corinna Khn (Ph.D.) is an art historian and research associate in the Department of Art History at Universitt Mnster. Her dissertation, which was published in 2020, is a comprehensive study of the medialization of performance and action art in Central Eastern Europe during the 1970s. Her research interests are the history of art in Central Eastern Europe, art under totalitarian circumstances, the medialization of performance and action art, theories of film and video art, artists' networks and archives, the feminist avant-garde, exhibition history, memory culture, praxeological approaches to art history. Marianne Wagner (Ph.D.) is a curator for contemporary art and head of the Skulptur Projekte Archives at the LWL-Museum fr Kunst und Kultur. Together with Kasper Knig and Britta Peters, she curated the Skulptur Projekte 2017. Her dissertation, titled Lecture Performance: Speech Acts as Performance Art since 1950 was awarded the Joseph Beuys Research Prize in 2014. She has developed and realized exhibition projects at the Kunstmuseum Thun, the Aargauer Kunsthaus, and the Nidwaldner Museum and has taught at Universitt Bern, Hochschule der Knste Bern, Kunstakademie Mnster as well as at Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt.